A one-person software company, betting on a specific shift in how people shop and create.
rAIse Labs builds small, opinionated apps that serve the AI agents your customers already use — so independent merchants on Shopify (and creators on Canva next) stay in the room as AI does more of the buying and the making.
I’m Burak. I started rAIse Labs because I kept watching small brands with better products lose to bigger ones — simply because the AI assistants people now ask for recommendations couldn’t parse their catalogs. On Shopify, independent merchants were turning invisible on the new shelf.
The same pattern shows up one click earlier — in the listing photo. Marketplaces like Etsy, Faire, and Mercari rank listings on framing, margin, contrast, and recognizability; AI-powered visual search ranks them on whether the product even reads as the product. Independent sellers and creators who shoot and stage their own photos in Canva are competing against teams with full art departments, and they’re losing to a rubric they can’t see. The opening is the same as on the catalog side: make the work legible to the agent or algorithm that’s now doing the judging.
Shopify is where we started — AI Ready audits and rewrites the parts of a catalog AI agents actually read. Canva is where we shipped next — ListBoost scores any product photo you have open in Canva and walks you through the smallest fix that closes each gap. Every app we ship has to earn its place on a customer’s monthly bill, so we keep the scope tight, the pricing honest, and the feature list finite.
Two apps in market, both pre-launch.
You can join the waitlist for either on its product page and be among the first installs when it goes live.
AI Ready — Agent SEO Optimizer.
Audits a Shopify catalog the way an AI shopping agent would read it, fixes the gaps in plain language, and serves anllms.txtso the agents you don’t talk to know what you sell.
ListBoost — Listing photo scorer.
Scores any product photo you have open in Canva on listing appeal, shopper trust, and visual-search readability — then previews the smallest fix that closes each gap.